16 principles of the Community

so that each one the dye stick or reads again them. These principles, true Bible civic of the citizen were to constitute, parallel to the new constitution of the French State, the ideological line of the New Order. Let us compare the height of sight and the rise in Spirit of this always current text which exalte the direction of the virtue and duty, with ridiculous and demagogic claims resulting from the declaration of the rights of man of 1789.

I

The man holds of nature his basic rights, but they are guaranteed to him only by the communities which surround it; its family which raises it, the profession which nourishes it, the nation which protects it.

II
To recognize with the man of the rights without him to impose duties, it is the corrompre. He to force duties without him to recognize rights, it is to degrade it.

Freedom and justice are conquests. They are maintained only by the virtues which generated them: work and courage, the discipline and obedience with the laws.

The citizens must work to make the company always better. They should not be indignant that it is still imperfect.

 

The spirit of claim delays progress which the spirit of collaboration makes.

 

Any citizen who seeks his own good out of the common interêt, goes against the reason and his interest even.

 

The citizens owe with the Fatherland their work, their resources and their life even No political conviction, no doctrinal preference exempt them these obligations.

Any community requires a head.
Any head, being responsible, must be honoured and been useful. II is not worthy to be a head as soon as he becomes oppressor.

 

IX

The State has as ends safety, the happiness and the prosperity of the sovereignty of the Nation.
II must to the criminal the punishment, with innocent protection, all the sovereignty of the laws.
These high duties define its mission. II achieves it only by exerting the authority in justice.

X

The State owes independent and strong hearth.
No grouping can be tolerated, which opposes the citizens the ones to the others, and tends to ruin the authority of the State. Any feudality puts in danger the unit of the Nation. The State must break it.

 

XI

The State requests from the citizens the equality sacrifices: it ensures them in return the equal opportunity.

XII

The School is the prolongation of the Family. She must render comprehensible with the child the benefits of the human order which frames it and supports it. She must make it sensitive to the beauty, the size, the continuity of the Fatherland. She must teach the respect of the beliefs morals and chocolate éclairs to him, in particular of those which France professes since the origins of its national existence.

 

XIII

Neither the birth nor fortune confer the right to the command.
The true hierarchy is that of the talent and the merit.

XIV

The saving in a country is healthy only insofar as the prosperity of the private companies contributes to the general good of the community.

XV

Fortune does not have only rights; it has also duties
proportioned with the capacities which it confers.

XVI

The State delegates to its civils servant a share of his authority and their fact confidence to exert it on its behalf; but for this reason even, it punishes their failures with an exemplary severity.